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Marathons
A Scan the text and find out what the numbers below refer to.
42.195 1897 1896 52,000
63.7 million 2007 40,000 1976
63.7 million 2007 40,000 1976
Three Marathons
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to complete in your
lifetime
LONDON MARATHON
It is 490 BCE and the Athenians The marathon at the 1908 London Olympics was
have just won an important battle the irst marathon to be run over 42.195 km. Today
against the Persians at a place all marathons cover that distance. The London
called Marathon. The soldier Marathon is the most popular marathon in the
Pheidippides runs about 40 km world — over 400,000 people apply to take part
from Marathon to Athens to share in it, but only about 40,000 are accepted for this
the news, but the moment he says, April event. Most of the runners raise money for
‘We were victorious!’, he collapses charity, making it the Guinness World Record
from exhaustion and dies. holder for the largest annual single-day fundraising
event in the world. In 2018, £63.7 million was raised.
A marathon, a long distance race,
was organised at the first modern
Olympic Games in Athens in 1896 to There is a group of runners
celebrate this event.Today there called the Ever Presents
are thousands of marathons for who have run every London
you to choose from, so here are Marathon since the first one
three that you shouldn’t miss. in 1981. The oldest member
is 85 years old!
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